Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.

Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?